The scenic beach­front Mt Plaisir Es­tate Ho­tel has been ranked by Tri­pAd­vi­sor—a glob­al trav­el guid­ance plat­form—in the top ten per cent of ho­tels world­wide.

Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions An­tho­ny Bryan has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go must pro­ceed with ex­treme cau­tion as re­gion­al ten­sions con­tin­ue to es­ca­late be­tween Venezuela and the Unit­ed States, not­ing that mis­steps could have se­ri­ous con­se­quences for the twin-is­land na­tion.

Venezuela’s de­ci­sion to sus­pend gas agree­ments with Trinidad and To­ba­go has prompt­ed calls for calm, diplo­ma­cy, and re­newed eco­nom­ic fo­cus from lo­cal busi­ness lead­ers and econ­o­mists.

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce is adding its voice to calls for peace in the South­ern Caribbean, as the Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly dis­tances the is­land from ris­ing ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.

While many Trinida­di­ans ap­pear un­both­ered by the ris­ing ten­sion be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, some in South Trinidad are qui­et­ly prepar­ing for the worst, stock­ing up on gro­ceries and es­sen­tial sup­plies in the event war breaks out and T&T is caught in the cross­fire.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor and for­mer min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, Dr Amery Browne, has warned that the on­go­ing es­ca­la­tion of ten­sions be­tween Venezuela and the Unit­ed States is be­gin­ning to take a toll on cit­i­zens’ men­tal health.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment will head to Par­lia­ment on Fri­day to ex­tend the SoE for three more months un­til ear­ly 2026, and it does not re­quire Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) votes to pass the ex­ten­sion.

While he was un­able to give his thoughts on whether he felt the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) should have been ex­tend­ed, act­ing pres­i­dent of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA), ASP Ish­mael Pitt, is urg­ing those in au­thor­i­ty to be mind­ful of the in­creased de­mand and strain placed on po­lice of­fi­cers.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has reached out to Ja­maican Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness as Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, a Cat­e­go­ry 5 storm that is fore­cast to be the most pow­er­ful storm in Ja­maica’s his­to­ry, is ex­pect­ed to make land­fall to­day, bring­ing cat­a­stroph­ic winds and flood­ing.

The Gov­ern­ment will be re­open­ing the T&T Ho­tel School, which has been closed for al­most eight years, says Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Ali­cia Pauline Lalite-Et­ti­enne has crit­i­cised the 2026 Bud­get, de­scrib­ing it as one that claims to be peo­ple-cen­tred but which will, in re­al­i­ty, in­crease the cost of liv­ing for the most fi­nan­cial­ly vul­ner­a­ble.

Less than two months af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar promised to de­port 200 il­le­gal Venezue­lan mi­grants, the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has is­sued an or­der to place all il­le­gal mi­grants at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre for de­por­ta­tion.